Rheolef, a free C++ FEM library for solving PDE : version 6.0 is out !

Rheolef: a C++ finite element library for solving PDE

Version : 6.0 Home page :

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Distibution: sources and debian packages

Keywords: finite elements, numerical simulation, partial derivative equations, C++, meshes, graphics

Rheolef is a programming environment that serves as a convenient laboratory for computations involving finite element methods (FEM) for solving partial differential equations (PDE). Rheolef is both a C++ library and a set of commands for unix shell programming, providing algorithms and data structures.

  • Algorithms refer to the most up-to-date ones: preconditioned sparse solvers for linear systems, incompressible elasticity, Stokes and Navier- Stokes flows, characteristic method for convection dominated heat problems, etc. Also nonlinear generic algorithms such as fixed point and damped Newton methods.

  • Data structures fit the standard variational formulation concept: spaces, discrete fields, bilinear forms are C++ types for variables, that can be combined in any expressions, as you write it on the paper.

Combined together, as a Lego game, these bricks allows the user to solve most complex nonlinear problems. The concision and readability of codes written with Rheolef is certainly a major keypoint of this environment.

Main features

  • [NEW] Massively distributed memory finite element environment, based on MPI.
  • [NEW] High-order polynomial approximation.
  • Poisson problems in dimension d=1,2,3.
  • Stokes problems (d=2,3), with Taylor-Hood or stabilized P1 bubble-P1 elements.
  • linear elasticity (d=1,2,3), including the incompressible case.
  • characteristic method for time-dependent problems: transport, convection-difusion, and Navier-Stokes equations.
  • input and output in various file format for meshes generators and numerical data visualization systems.

Advanced features

  • auto-adaptive mesh algorithms.
  • axisymetric problems.
  • multi-regions and non-constant coefficients.
  • nonlinear problems with either fixed-point algorithms or a provided generic damped Newton solver.
  • 3d stereo visualization

Both reference manual and users guide are available.

The license is GPL.

Pierre Saramito

-- snipped-for-privacy@imag.fr Directeur de Recherche CNRS Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Grenoble, France

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